Tag-fastener



(No Model.)

s. s. SENOENBAUGH.

TAG FASIENER.

Patented Mar. 10, 1885.

fzvenfoz maw Ml j NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL S. SENOENBAUGH, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOGEORGE V. HARVEY AND CHARLES O. BORING, BOTH OF CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS.

TAG-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,539, dated March10, 1885.

Application filed June 16, 1884. (No model.)

T0 or whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL S. SENcEN- BAUGH, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Aurora, in the county of- Kane and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTag-Fasteners, my present invention being an improvement upon thetag-fastener described in Letters Patent of the United States No.298,629, granted to me May 13, 1884, and being especially adapted forattaching tags or labels to fibrous goods, of which the following is aspecification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents my tagfastener partiallycompletedthat is, before the ends of the shanks or arms A and B shallhave been turned into hooks, as shown in dotted lines; and Fig. 2represents one form of a tag-fastener in which my invention appears.

I construct this tag-fastener of metal or wire, and having duplicated itupon itself so as to form the loop 0 for the tag or label, which loop oreye may be of any desired form or shape, and may be constructed in anyplane with reference to the plane of the arms or shanks A B, Ielliptically and inwardly bend back the shanks or arms so as to formhooks, each of the points of which hooks impinge against or upon someportion of the other shank or arm. The shanks or arms are preferably ofdifferent lengths, and I have so illustrated them in the drawings. Aless convenient form of my invention is to make the shanks or arms shownin the drawings of equal length, the hooks in either case being adaptedto seize the goods or article to be labeled by inserting the samebetween the said shanks or arms and by turning or revolving the fastenerone-quarter round, more or less, and then withdrawing the same a little,whereupon the hooks will engage in the goods or package to be labeled. Iprefer that the longer shank shall be so bent as that its point shallrest, not against but upon one side of the oval bend in the other shank,so as that they shall be maintained in different planes to facilitatethe introduction of the goods between them but this is not essential,for if they are so constructed as that they may rest in the same planeit is an easy matter to so manipulate them in applying them as that theyshall be separated and the goods inserted as aforesaid. I also preferthat the hook on the longer of the said shanks or arms shall be so bentas that its point shall rest against the side of the oval bend in theother arm, and the hook of 5 the shorter arm shall be so bent andtwisted as to rest against the inner side of the longer shank or arm, inwhich shape my said fast ener becomes a safety-fastener in which thepoints are protected against accidentally engaging, and in whichconstruction this tagfastener is more convenient for packing andshipping.

It is not essential to my invention that the shanks or arms should be ofdifferent lengths; but it is very desirable, if of the same length, theshanks should be turned elliptically and inwardly upon each other, sothat the point of each hook will rest against the front or rear side ofthe'other shank.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, 1s

1. An improved tag-fastener consisting of a wire bent to ibrm twoparallel shanks or arms which terminate in hooks, each bent inwardly,the points of the said hooks resting, respectively, against the bodyportion of the other shank or arm, all substantially as shown anddescribed.

2. An improved tag-fastener consisting of a Wire bent to form twoparallel shanks or arms of unequal length, each terminating in hooks,each bent inwardly, the point of the hook of the longer arm restingagainst the body portion of the book of the shorter arm, allsubstantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of June, A.D. 1884.

SAMUEL S. SENOENBAUGH.

Witnesses:

CHARLES O. BORING, Gno. V. HARVEY.

